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title: Then the General placed his men in three strong rows all round the h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the General placed his men in three strong rows all round the house so as not to let the Iron Wolf get in; and no sooner had the young people sat down upon the bridal bench, than, sure enough, the Iron Wolf came running up. Who acts: General, Iron Wolf, young people. A sentence of «Cossack Fair
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 26

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Then the General placed his men in three strong rows all round the house so as not to let the Iron Wolf get in; and no sooner had the young people sat down upon the bridal bench, than, sure enough, the Iron Wolf came running up.

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**Who acts:** General, Iron Wolf, young people · **What happens:** place, not let, get in, have, sit down, come · **To what, where:** men, three strong rows, bridal bench

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General, Iron Wolf, young people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:17:26
# text = Then the General placed his men in three strong rows all round the house so as not to let the Iron Wolf get in; and no sooner had the young people sat down upon the bridal bench, than, sure enough, the Iron Wolf came running up.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	_
43	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
49	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | the General | bridegroom's men |  | three strong rows | then | round the house | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in row=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | the General *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get in** | present | the Iron Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | the young people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | the young people |  |  | the bridal bench |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bench=Location |
| 6 | **come** | past | the Iron Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **run up** | gerund | the Iron Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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